Foreign influence

[Ian H]

[Palantir's] head of UK operations, Louis Mosley (grandson of Oswald), appears regularly in the British media. Although usually more measured than his US bosses, at last year’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference he warned that Western civilisation was in an existential battle against a ‘distributed idea suppression complex’ consisting of ‘armies of fact-checkers and experts’, lawyers, activists, academics and journalists. Organised opposition to Palantir has increased in Britain, but Labour ministers continue to stress the importance of its technology to the running of a modern state.
[LRB]

 

[Ian H]

Palantir’s first outside investor was the CIA’s private venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. The agency was its first customer. Thiel once joked that ‘the CIA is a front for Palantir.’

 

[Pblakeney]

None of the above surprises me.
The UK should treat Palantir as a bad actor.